SUCROSE-STARCH SWEETENER FREE FROM REDUCING SUGAR

摘要

A sweetner having some of the properties of dextrin while being practially free of reducing sugars is prepared by subjecting sucrose and dextrin to cyclodextrin-glycosyl-transferase in an aqueous medium. Depending on the ratio of sucrose and dextrin, the product obtained after destroying the enzyme and purifying the fermentation mixture may be as sweet as an equal weight of the sucrose used or primarily show the properties of dextrin solution. It is useful in preparing food in which either or both properties are desired. The product is more stable thermally and chemically than sweetners containing reducing sugars.